Four years from now, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” that in order for the Red Planet to be livable we need to detonate nuke’s over it’s poles. It’s possible that the explosions will free the water vapours and cabon dioxide trapped inside and under the Martian ice, soil and rocks.

Scientists don’t fully agree with this idea, because they think that there is not enough carbon dioxide under the Martian surface to bring it’s atmosphere anywhere near to the Earth’s atmosphere or livable. The current atmosphere of Mars is even less than 1% as dense as that of the Earth. According to recent studies Nuking the Mars would bring it’s atmosphere to about 6% as dense as that of Earth, which in the eye’s of  the researchers is not worth the trouble. Elon Musk has publically disagreed to this.